What classics do I NEED to play?

[Wulfgar]

Half Life

 

 

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All of my this's

[Dudenstein]

Rise of Nations Thrones and Patriots was a great RTS game. I still play it was custom maps

[That Norwegian Guy]

Examples from most genres:

 

Adventure:

The Longest Journey series

Grim Fandango

Syberia 1 & 2

Monkey Island series

Sanitarium

 

FPS/ 3PS:

Star Trek: Elite Force

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

 

 

Realtime Strategy:

Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War (not 2!!!!)

Earth 2140 (is that the title? I forget)

 

Turn based Strategy:

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Galactic Civilizations 2

 

RPG:

The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind

 

Platformer:

Pitfall

 

Sim:

IL-2 Sturmovik

 

Genre benders:

Beyond Good & Evil

Bad Mojo

 

 

 

 

 

You will get a lot of recommendations for Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate, I recommend you only play those really old games if you have extreme patience. Even for me who played through them several times in the 90's, going back to them is a drag no matter how good the memories/ nostalgia is.

[soggyfatman]

Why has no one posted Duke Nukem?! What is wrong with this forum...
I agree to a lot of what I have seen but not many are reading the owners post, we need old games. The founding fathers of pc gaming! Most games that were once pc exclusive have sadly been ported to the console but here is a list anyhow. I know I am missing some, but I did my best.
Doom

Duke Nukem

System Shock 2

Max Payne 1 and 2

Star Craft 1 and Broodwar

Warcraft 3, not that old but worth it

Dues Ex

Theif 1 and 2

age of empires

red alert

Morrowind FOR SURE!!!

Fallout 1 and 2

Freedom Force

Half Life
Knights of the Old Rebublic

Quake
Serious Sam

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series

Worms

Wolfenstein 3D

Tomb Raider, when it was just boobs and uzis